Dates: June 7 th – 9 th 2023
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Utrecht University – Vening Meinesz building A, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Instructors:
Daniel Zamrsky
Ariel T. Thomas
Shubhangi Gupta
Description
Over the last few years there has been a notable increase in research activities related to OFG systems, which has led to the development of a number of multi-physics analysis and interpretation approaches. Integrating and standardising these methods is key to developing a common conceptual framework for characterising OFG systems. This 3-day training school aims to provide high quality and interdisciplinary training in OFG investigation and research management for PhD students, Young Researchers and Innovators (YRIs) and practitioners. Participants will be given an overview of the state-of-the-art in OFG systems research and specific challenges to characterization. The primary technical focus will be the integrated numerical modelling of OFG systems over geological time scales to assess their evolution and better understand present-day distributions. The course will also introduce the fundamental principles of modelling, geostatistical methods for reservoir characterization and groundwater modelling including variable density transport. The format will be highly interactive, with real data demonstrations usings tools such as Petrel, Geomodeller, Jupyter Labs, FloPy and imod-WQ. Knowledge of these tools would be advantageous but not mandatory. Participants will also be given the opportunity to work together with trainers to apply these methods in their own OFG projects.
Objectives:
- Bring all participants to a common understanding of the fundamentals of OFG systems
- Introduce the governing physical principles
- Define the key metrics for OFG characterization
- A practical introduction to state-of-the-art tools for OFG system characterization including for geostatistical methods and groundwater modelling.
- Develop a network of leading experts in OFG research
Course Outline
Day 1
Session 1: Overview of OFG Characterisation
Session 2: Fundamentals of modelling
Day 2
Session 1: Geostatistical methods using Petrel
Session 2: Building large scale groundwater models (I)
Day 3
Session 1: Building large scale groundwater models (II)
Session 2: Interpretation/Live data workshop